ComPost: December 12, 2010 - December 18, 2010

Julian Assange's alleged "creepy, lovesick emails" have been all over the Internet lately. Who says the love letter is dead? According to Gawker.com, at the age of thirty-three, Julian Assange wrote a series of e-mails, which were leaked to...

Even now, in the midst of all the hubbub over Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal, Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse of the Ruth Institute, based in San Diego, wants the rainbow back from the "Rainbow Coalition" of gay rights activists....

Antonin Scalia is joining the Tea Party. He'll speak at an event for members of Congress in January hosted by Michele Bachmann's Tea Party Caucus. Bachmann's group is too radioactive even for many House Republicans, but Nino doesn't worry about...

The Who's Whos down in Congress Liked Christmas a lot But Senator Reid (D-Nevada) Did not. Sen. Reid hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason It could be his...

According to Media Matters, Fox News Washington editor Bill Sammon directed journalists to slant their coverage of global warming. In an e-mail to journalists after a climate change conference, he requested that they "refrain from asserting that the planet has...

National Cupcake Day? This is yet another day I feel bad for muffins. I always think of muffins as cupcakes' hard-working older siblings. They toiled at their unglamorous but steady jobs while cupcakes waltzed off to Hollywood to try...

(Mark Zuckerberg - Paul Sakuma, AP) I know why Mark Zuckerberg is Time Magazine's Person of the Year. It's not because of his achievements, although they are legion, or because of The Social Network, although it was an engaging...

Thanks to a connection with Julian Assange, I was able to obtain this year's Naughty and Nice list from Santa several weeks early! Who knows, you might be on it! The Washington Post 1 156 2010-12-14T17:30:00Z 1 430 2452 The...

FIFA chief says that during the World Cup in Qatar in 2022, homosexual soccer fans "should refrain from any sexual activities" that are illegal there. And under no circumstances should they put urine on any books....

YouTube now lets you flag videos for promoting terrorism? On the one hand, this is an encouragingly democratic process. But, like most democratic processes, this leaves it vulnerable to manipulation by people who think it is hilarious to flag...

John Boehner, do you need a tissue? Why is everyone crying? First Glenn Beck -- now John Boehner! Weren't they raised in the era when someone would explain to you as a child that crying in front of people...

TLC's philosophy with Sarah Palin's Alaska is now clear: it's all about the juxtaposition. Find something America likes less than Sarah Palin, and juxtapose, juxtapose, juxtapose! So far, the things America likes less than Sarah Palin are: bears, dead...